In the BusinessDay of January 12, 2010 December 25, 2009: A Nigerian-born male, with secondary education in Togo and university education in London, said to have been radicalized during his university days in London, and to have been further radicalized in Yemen, attempted to detonate an ‘incendiary device’ that he had sown into his underwear [...]
In the BusinessDay of December 29, 2009 There is a thing about being so close to something that one does not see it anymore. Anthropologists normally refer to it as going native. You have gone native when you no longer see the obvious things anymore, when the things that an outsider notices stares you in [...]
In the BusinessDay of December 22, 2009 Nigeria is not known as a country that has contributed a lot to the development of democracy, what with very many years of dictatorship and all. But the Athens-born mode of governance might just be getting a big make-over from the state of affairs in Nigeria. If the [...]
In the BusinessDay of December 1, 2009 Sometime ago, in a forum of Nigerians, someone said that he did not know whether to be proud to be a Nigerian. The response: “How dare you say you might not be proud of Nigeria? That is the kind of thing that makes other countries dump on us! [...]
In the BusinessDay of November 3, 2009 I was not a Nigerian until I lived outside Nigeria. Let me explain. The realization that I am Nigerian hit me right between the eyes when I went to study in Sweden. Apart from the fact that I was a foreigner, that is. Foreigner I was prepared for. [...]